I think that this "feature" is an arXiv exclusive -- the links point only to their articles. I left an angry comment on the link block: Is this “This Week’s To

I think that this "feature" is an arXiv exclusive -- the links point only to their articles. I left an angry comment on the link block: Is this “This Week’s Top 5 Posts” Medium’s new deal, or is it yours? This is like HuffPost mid-article attention-bait. I can’t stand it. I’ve previously equivocated Medium with an intense focus on single article content — no distractions. It was very confusing to find this totally unrelated link block here. I thought the article had suddenly ended. What sort of click-through statistics are they trying to drive here? They don't have pageviews to pump on Medium (do they?), so what's the play?